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Radeon 7000 - image 'ghosting' problem
I just bought a Radeon 7000 card (PowerColor 64MB DDR, p/n RV6DE-B3)
and am running it at 32 bit, 1600x1200x75Hz on a Panasync SL90 monitor. I'm getting ghosting that looks like an echo to the right of images that takes about 5 repeats to fade out over maybe 15mm. The display is still perfectly usable but the false images are distracting and make it difficult to be accurate when using eg. Photoshop. I'm using the latest drivers from the ATI website; I tried the powercolor website (www.powercolor.com.tw) but it wasn't much help. Neither changing the bit depth or refresh rate removes the ghosting. My monitor cable is extended to about 10 feet by a male-female monitor-type cable. I just want a clear, crisp display with no false images. Can anyone offer any advice? System: Athlon XP2400+, 512MB PC2600 RAM, ASROCK K7S8XE mobo, Win XP Pro Thanks! Colin |
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Have you tried it on a different monitor matey
"Colin Bennun" wrote in message m... I just bought a Radeon 7000 card (PowerColor 64MB DDR, p/n RV6DE-B3) and am running it at 32 bit, 1600x1200x75Hz on a Panasync SL90 monitor. I'm getting ghosting that looks like an echo to the right of images that takes about 5 repeats to fade out over maybe 15mm. The display is still perfectly usable but the false images are distracting and make it difficult to be accurate when using eg. Photoshop. I'm using the latest drivers from the ATI website; I tried the powercolor website (www.powercolor.com.tw) but it wasn't much help. Neither changing the bit depth or refresh rate removes the ghosting. My monitor cable is extended to about 10 feet by a male-female monitor-type cable. I just want a clear, crisp display with no false images. Can anyone offer any advice? System: Athlon XP2400+, 512MB PC2600 RAM, ASROCK K7S8XE mobo, Win XP Pro Thanks! Colin |
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I am pretty sure it is you monitor cable. At that resolution you need a
cable that is shielded very well. If you are using a switch box or KVM, make sure all the monitor cables and extensions are shielded properly. If you can't change the cable on your monitor (because it's hardwired inside), try to get some ferrous blocks to put on your existing monitor cable. They should have them at a local computer/electronic store. bye, Rick "Colin Bennun" wrote in message m... I just bought a Radeon 7000 card (PowerColor 64MB DDR, p/n RV6DE-B3) and am running it at 32 bit, 1600x1200x75Hz on a Panasync SL90 monitor. I'm getting ghosting that looks like an echo to the right of images that takes about 5 repeats to fade out over maybe 15mm. The display is still perfectly usable but the false images are distracting and make it difficult to be accurate when using eg. Photoshop. I'm using the latest drivers from the ATI website; I tried the powercolor website (www.powercolor.com.tw) but it wasn't much help. Neither changing the bit depth or refresh rate removes the ghosting. My monitor cable is extended to about 10 feet by a male-female monitor-type cable. I just want a clear, crisp display with no false images. Can anyone offer any advice? System: Athlon XP2400+, 512MB PC2600 RAM, ASROCK K7S8XE mobo, Win XP Pro Thanks! Colin |
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"Colin Bennun" wrote in message
m... I just bought a Radeon 7000 card (PowerColor 64MB DDR, p/n RV6DE-B3) and am running it at 32 bit, 1600x1200x75Hz on a Panasync SL90 monitor. I'm getting ghosting that looks like an echo to the right of images that takes about 5 repeats to fade out over maybe 15mm. The display is still perfectly usable but the false images are distracting and make it difficult to be accurate when using eg. Photoshop. I'm using the latest drivers from the ATI website; I tried the powercolor website (www.powercolor.com.tw) but it wasn't much help. Neither changing the bit depth or refresh rate removes the ghosting. My monitor cable is extended to about 10 feet by a male-female monitor-type cable. I just want a clear, crisp display with no false images. Can anyone offer any advice? Three problems: 1) That's a high resolution and refresh rate, and typically that requires a top-notch video cable (rarely included with the monitor). If your monitor supported a BNC connection (it doesn't) I would have also strongly recommended that, since I saw a huge improvement at 1440x928@90Hz when I switched from normal HD15. 2) That's the absolute maximum resolution/refresh rate supported by the monitor, so even a super high quality video cable may not do it for you. Usually it's nice to have some "headroom" on the monitor, since quality usually falls the closer to the maximums you get. 3) The ATI 7000 series does not produce the absolute clearest analog signals at high resolution/refresh rate. I would recommend an 8500 series card for that. Additionally, sometimes third-party cards have inferior analog quality. Looking at a photo of yours, that may not be the case here - but I remember an OEM ATI-based card I got a year ago or so where the HD15 connector was attached by a ribbon cable to the small video board, and that had noticeably worse quality than the full ATI-produced card in the same series, which used a "normal sized" board like the one shown for your card. - Daniel |
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"Daniel Tonks" dtonks@sunstormADD-DOT-COM wrote in message . visi.com...
If your monitor supported a BNC connection (it doesn't) I would have also strongly recommended that, since I saw a huge improvement at 1440x928@90Hz when I switched from normal HD15. Oh but it does... thanks for the reminder. The search is on for a high-quality 4m+ HD15-5xBNC cable. Colin |
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"Colin Bennun" wrote in message
om... "Daniel Tonks" dtonks@sunstormADD-DOT-COM wrote in message . visi.com... If your monitor supported a BNC connection (it doesn't) I would have also strongly recommended that, since I saw a huge improvement at 1440x928@90Hz when I switched from normal HD15. Oh but it does... thanks for the reminder. The search is on for a high-quality 4m+ HD15-5xBNC cable. Hmm, my first searches on the Panasync SL90 didn't seem to mention that anywhere. Guess those spec pages were just incomplete. :-) You should see an improvement in sharpness and ghosting. - Daniel |
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